Keys, that is what she needed. A small sigh left her lips as she picked them up from table by her door. Slipping on her jacket she walked herself to her car, it was four thirty in the morning and she was going to pick him up from where he said he was. She knew that he was serious about getting clean, he had sound like he was on the verge of tears on the phone. Before she left to get his drunken ass for the last time, she sent out a mass text to everyone. To all those that still had hope that he would make the call that he did finally make not so long ago. It wasn't many, but it was enough. At least she hoped it would be. The car ride to find him was dull, she hadn't turned on the radio.

It wasn't hard to find him, he still in the phone booth. A frown placed on the brunette's lips as she walked up to him, noting that he had in fact been crying but she didn't say anything about it, she just helped him up and brought him to her car. He was like a child in the passenger's side, needing help with clipping in his seat belt. But it wasn't new to her, but it was the last time. Austin didn't speak a word, in fact he fell asleep in the car, his head resting against the cold window as a few light snores emitted from his lips.

Getting him in the house, now almost over a year ago it would have been a hard task for the petite brunette to do but now, with months of practice it was easier then the first time. She ignored the mumbles that fell from the form she was helping to her guest bedroom. Turning the light on, she placed him onto the bed, taking off his shoes and jersey before pulling the blanket over on top of him and tucking him in. Placing a kiss to his forehead, she brushed back some of his blond hair. "I hope to god that this was really the last time Austin, your parents and Dez are coming here tomorrow." She whispered as she walked out, turning out the light and walking to her own bed to go to sleep.

A small groan left his lips as he woke up, he rubbed at his eyes, god he had a headache. Letting out a sigh as he sat up he realised whose room it was, and the memories of last night came flooding into his mind. He could already feel the effect of the drugs wearing off, but he knows he isn't allowed to, that he wont allow himself to have more. Not after what he promised and pleaded last night. "A-Ally?" He called out, swinging his legs over the edge of the bed. He picked up his shoes off the ground and his jersey, pulling it on.

"I am in the lounge Austin, as well as some others." Came Ally's voice back, and Austin had a feeling he knew who it was going to be. Slowly, he took himself into the lounge. Once he walked in he saw his parents and Dez, and his eyes went to the ground as he went and took the seat that no one would be able to sit next to him on. A few seconds later, he felt a hand on his shoulder and a cup came into his view. "Here, drink this Austin." Ally spoke as he took the cup into his hands and he took a small sip of the hot content within the cup.

"Can you tell us why you did this? This drinking? This doing drugs?" His mother's voice asked softly as she came and knelled in front of her son, trying to look into his eyes. Eyes that started to fill with sadness and disappointment. Disappointment filled his eyes because he knows that he has hurt the ones that he cares about the most in the process of keeping his little secret of how he's felt in side. Of how before all the drinking and drugs, he would at nights cry himself to sleep. Of how he just didn't feel right any more.

Taking in a deep breath Austin started to speak. "Nobody knows how I felt, I didn't want to tell anyone how I felt inside, then I found that they, they took them away. Those feelings within me. They made me happy, they made me feel so good about myself. I would get, dark and bad thoughts about myself. I hated myself but when I was high or drunk, I didn't, those feelings faded and I was protected from them. I'm feeling that way now, I.. I don't like doing this, this breathing all the time. Not when I know there are people who wont like me for me." There were tears in eyes as he spoke, his breath now shaky. Yes he knew that not everyone would like him, but that didn't stop the unwanted feeling he would get every time he would see one of those hateful. "I get really bad at times. But, I know know I shouldn't rely on them, not if they are going to kick you guys out of my life instead. That would just make me feel worse about it, make the feelings worse, I know it would." It did.

"We are here for you Austin, and we will be here for you every step of the way. We promise."